The Madara Rider, representing the figure of a knight triumphing over a lion, is carved into a 100-m-high cliff near the village of Madara in north-east Bulgaria. Madara was the principal sacred place ...

Figure of a horseman, 13th century. IT MAY not look much, but this damaged figure of a horse and rider, found in 1844 at Knockmannan Hill near Kinnity, Co Offaly, tells an important story.

Michael Pedersen who killed his two children, Ben and Freya, before committing suicide was the rider of Sefton, the Household Cavalry horse blown up by the IRA, it has emerged.